Chris Ryan

Good for them.

I mean, it just seems like the story of their season is going to be a team that was missing a point guard.

A good Gasol coach.

But it's Missoula.

Missoula, just because, A, obviously, he is concocting a phenomenal season out of what most teams would have considered...

a write-off.

You know, if you had told me that the Celtics were closer to the Pacers this season, I would have believed it in terms of, like, what their outlook might have been without Tatum.

Now, obviously, at Brown and, like, the way that he has been able to construct this team, which to me has actually been, and don't tell Bill I said this, slightly more entertaining than in previous iterations of the Celtics to watch this year's Celtics.

And also, just on a content level, is reliably...

I just have never... I never have any idea about what he's going to say when he gets asked the most vanilla question.

Joe, what'd you see out there?

He could say, nothing, I saw nothing.

My eyes were closed.

Or he could start talking about...

Samurais, you know what I mean?

Orcas, orca pods.

Exactly.

And I knew that we were in for something special when he did the infamous coaches versus journalists pickup game at the beginning of the year.

I was like, this guy is now, we're in performance art territory.

This is really like, he's got a ring and now he's playing around a little bit.